Personalized MasterCard PepTalks from Peyton Manning here.
When I submitted the t-shirt above to Bountee, I never expected anyone to buy it (mostly because I didn’t expect them to be around long enough for anyone to stumble upon it). Imagine my surprise when I received an e-mail from PayPal this morning, informing me that I’d received $3.01 from Bountee.
Whoever purchased it has [...]
Apparently, today is Blog Action Day, a day for — I guess — anyone with a blog to post something relating to the environment. Here’s my advice:
Stop buying so much crap; it all ends up in landfills eventually.
There. That ought to do it.
I’m onboard with most cooking/reality shows — Hell’s Kitchen had its finale Monday night, and was rather anticlimactic — but I find very little to dislike about Top Chef, other than wanting to punch Tom Colicchio in his smug face (even though a dinner I had at his craftsteak outpost in Las Vegas was one [...]
Variety reports that Johnny Depp has signed on to appear in the film adaptation of the late Hunter Thompson’s The Rum Diary. Good news, especially since, short of Hell’s Angels, it’s the only HST book that could be made into a film. I can’t imagine a big-screen adaptation of The Curse Of Lono, which remains [...]
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I’ve spent the last several days lusting after the iPhone. I won’t be buying one, of course, mostly because of my previous horrible experience with AT&T/Cingular, but my God, it’s nice looking. The screen is phenomenally clean and sharp. I played with one for about 10 minutes at the Apple Store in Indianapolis over the [...]
Rest in peace, Charles Nelson Reilly. We hardly knew ye.
I just finished Heat by Bill Buford this afternoon, in just under four days. It’s a profoundly fascinating book, and the second I’ve read where the author, a gourmand, perhaps, but a novice cook, embarks on a journey of culinary education as fodder for a book. I think the transformation for Buford is more complete [...]
Singer Henry Lee Summer shocked with stun gun during arrest over SUV accident
I don’t care how uncool it is; “I Wish I Had A Girl (Who Walked Like That)” was is a great song. This is just sad.